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2010
Spring New Ph.D. Student
  Eslam A. Mostafa has joined the lab as PhD student.
  Ali H. Mahmoud has joined the lab as PhD student.
  Ahmed Shalaby has joined the lab as PhD student.
   
  Murray Teaching Award for 2008-2009 Academic Year
  Dr. Aly Farag has been awarded the best teaching award for 2008-2009 academic year. This award is delivered based on students' survey. Congratulations for Dr. Aly Farag. 

Dr. Farag (left) with Dr. Mickey Wilhelm, Dean of Engineering (middle) and

Dr. James Graham, Chair of ECE Department (right).

 

Dr. Farag with a number of CVIP Lab students and postdocs. From left to right: Melih Aslan,

Ham Rara, Dr. Dongqing Chen, Dr. Asem Ali, Ahmed Farag, Dr. Aly Farag, and Amal Farag. 

 

Dr. Farag with more students. From left to right: Rosaria Pusateri, Cambron Carter,

Aly Abdelrahim, Ahmed Shalaby, Eslam A. Mostafa, Ali H. Mahmoud, Dr. James Graham, Chair of ECE Department,

Dr. Aly Farag, and Amal Farag. 

 
2009
Spring New Ph.D. Student
  Mustafa Abdelrahman has joined the lab as PhD student.
   
  Graduated M. Sc.
  Amal Farag has finished her M. Sc. Congradulations!
   
Fall New Ph.D. Student
  Aly Abdelrahim has joined the lab as PhD student.
2008
Spring  
  Abdelrehim H. Ahmed has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “SHAPE FROM SHADING UNDER VARIOUS IMAGING CONDITIONS” 
  Asem M Ali has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “IMAGE LABELING BY ENERGY MINIMIZATION WITH APPEARANCE AND SHAPE PRIORS” 
  Rachid Fahmi has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR SHAPE AND IMAGE REGISTRATIONS” 
2007
Spring

The Lab won the two first awards (graduate and under-graduate) in the E-Expo (Engineering day).
  Graduated Ph.D.
  Alaa Aly has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “NOVEL FRAMEWORKS FOR ROBUST FEATURE EXTRACTION IN COLOR AND 3D SPACES”
  Hossam Hassan has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “IMPLICIT CURVE/SURFACE EVOLUTION WITH APPLICATION TO THE IMAGE SEGMENTATION PROBLEM”
Fall New Research Assistant
  Shireen Elhabian has joined the lab as PhD student.
  Melih Aslan has joined the lab as PhD student.
2006
Spring The Lab won the first three awards in the E-Expo (Engineering day):
  Congratulation for Hossam, Noha and Sabry.
2005
Fall New Research Assistant
  Asaad Farrag has joined the lab as PhD student.
  Graduated Ph.D.
  Refaat Mohamed has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled "Kernel methods for statistical learning in computer vision and pattern recognition applications ".
2004
Fall New Research Assistant
  Wael Emara has joined the lab as PhD student.
  Graduated Ph.D.
  Ahmed Eid has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled "On the Performance Evaluation of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques from a Sequence of Images".
Spring New Research Assistant
  Abdelrehim Ahmed, Asem Ali , and Noha El-Zehiry have joined the lab as PhD students.  Ham Rara has joined the lab as Master Student.

2003

Fall New Research Assistant
Rachid Fahmi and Sergie Checkmenev have joined the lab as PhD students
Seniha Esen Yuksel has joined the lab as a Master Student
Summer New Research Assistant
Dongqing Chen has joined the lab as a PhD student

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2002

December CVIP Recognition from SGI.
SGI-CVIP Lab "Success Story"
November Research Louisville First Place
Prof Aly. Farag won the 1st place in Research! Louisville.
Ayman Sabry, research assistant in the CVIP lab won also the 1st place in Research! Louisville for graduate students.
August New Research Assistant
Hong Shi, ECE Ph.D. Student, joined the CVIP Lab as RA.
July SIGGRAPH 2002
Mohamed Sabry, ECE Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, attended
the 2002 SIGGRAPH Conference in St. Antonio Texas
IF2002
Refaat M. Mohamed, ECE Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, attended
the Information Fusion Conference 2002 in Annapolis, Maryland.
June A new robot joins the lab
  The first robotic vehicle platform for vision research is delivered from RoboDirect.com
June CARS 2002
Dr. Aly Farag attended the 2002 CARS Conference in Paris where he presented a research paper on MRA segmentation
Summer Medical School
Ayman Elbaz, ECE Ph.D. student and RA at the CVIP Lab, attended the EMBS Medical Imaging Summer School in France
Summer Trainee
Ramsey Ibrahim, Undergraduate Engineering Student, joined the CVIP Lab as an undergraduate RA
May The SGI Onyx Supercomputer is upgraded
  We added another 300Gb to the Old Onyx supercomputer for more image storage.
New Research Assistants
Alaa Aly and Hossam Hassan, ECE Ph.D. Students, joined the CVIP Lab as RAs.
March SGI Excellence in Visualization Award
Mohamed Sabry, ECE Ph.D. student and RA at the CVIP Lab, won the SGI Award on Visualization and High Performance Computing.
February Aly Farag is a University Scholar
Dr. Aly Farag was appointed as University Scholar, for Excellence in Scholarly Activities. 
Engineer's Days!
Refaat M. Mohamed, ECE Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, achieved the 2nd place in ECE dept. in the E-Days held by Speed School.
New Grant

The CVIP Lab proposal "Perception for Autonomous Mobility" was funded by the US Army

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2001
October CVIP Lab is cited in a Courier-Journal
 

 
August New Research Scientist Joins the Lab
  Dr. Hani Mahdi has joined the lab as a visiting Research Scientist.
Summer New Ph.D. Students Join the Lab
  Three new Ph.D. students have joined the lab. They are Ayman El-Baz, Mohamed Sabry, and Refaat Mohamed.
June The FANUC robot arm is received and installed in the lab
  The new FANUC M-6i robot arm has arrived, along with the associated control equipment. The arm has been installed in the lab, and is functional.
May Yurong Li Graduates
  Yurong Li has graduated, with a M.Eng Thesis done in the lab. Yurong's thesis is "Motion Tracking in an Active Vision System."
March 30 CVIP Lab projects are cited in a Courier-Journal story.
  The CardEye and Jaw Project are cited in a news story in the Louisville, KY newspaper, The Courier-Journal. The projects are presented as examples of research developments that could be commercialized through the company Minerva Ventures, that has been created by UofL to market research and services. (link to story)

Feb. 24

 The CVIP Lab sweeps Speed School Engineer's Days!
  E-Days presentations by the CVIP Lab's students take 1st and 3rd places in Speed School, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places in the ECE department.
  • 1st place Speed School, 1st place ECE: 3D Fax/Copy Machine, Moumen Ahmed
  • 3rd place Speed School, 2nd place ECE: Medical Imaging, Jeremy Nett, Chuck Sites
  • 3rd place ECE: Motion Tracking with an Active Vision System, Yurong Li, Moumen Ahmed
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2000
February Engineer's Days: the CVIP Lab performs well:
  1st place, ECE: Image guided navigation for neuroendoscopy, Ayman Eldeib, Yurong Li
2nd place, ECE: Surface reconstruction with an Active Vision System, Moumen Ahmed, Matt Eklund
3rd place, ECE: Model building from a sequence of images, Abdoulah Sangare, Moumen Ahmed
July Visiting Professor
  Prof. Georgy Gimel'farb, of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, visits the CVIP for a week, as part of a joint research project.
November CVIP on media
  The CVIP Lab's work on visualization for surgical planning was featured on The Learning Channel (TLC).

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1999
Dec 14 CVIP on WAV3 TV.
  The CVIP Lab is featured on WAVE3 TV. 5-Oclock news with Eldora Jackson in the Health cast Reports
Dec 6 CVIP on Courier Journal
  The CVIP Lab is featured in the Metro section of the Courier Journal.
Nov 4 CVIP on Speed School Magazine
  The CVIP Lab is featured in the Speed Engineer Alumni Magazine.
Oct 15 Immersa Desk
  The Immersa Desk from Pyramid Systems is installed.
Feb 21, 22 Engineers Days - University of Louisville
  Elsayed Hemayed, Moumen Ahmed and Matthew Eklund won the 
First Place: Electrical Engineering,
third Place: Best Overall Exhibit
March 11 President's Award for Research
 


University of Louisville President's Award for Research, Achievmement, and Creative Ability
 Pictured left to right are University Provost Carol Garrison, Dr. Farag, and Tom Hanley, the Dean of Speed School

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1998
June 19 NSF Article on the CVIP Lab's work
  The CVIP Lab is recognized by the NSF for its Image-Guided Neurosurgery Project and also for its 3-D Jaw Reconstruction Project

Feb 22, 23

 Engineering Day's
  Sameh Yamany and Elsayed Hemayed
First Place: Electrical Engineering - Engineers Days - University of Louisville
"3-D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw From a Sequence of Images"
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